Kristin Nicholas Returns LIVE and in COLOR to the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird.
Kristin says she learned to sew as a kid, through 4H with the clothing and textiles, and learned to knit because
she wanted something to do while on the bus or train in college. She attended Grad School at Colorado State University (same as Marly!) with a masters degree, from there went to New York City and made her way to her dream job with Classic Elite Yarns. When she and her husband with their daughter found a farm in Western Massachusetts, she began writing books and doing freelance design. [Read more…]
Candace gave us a little bit of her background, how she met her husband of 41 years and acquired the name ‘Strick' which in German means ‘to knit' (PERFECT for a knitwear designer). Knitting for her began when her mother taught her at age 3, her father bought her a skein of Red Heart Yarns, the rainbow colorway. The first piece came out shaped like a triangle because of all the stitches she dropped. Knitting was on the back burner as she grew to play cello and then, as an adult, had a family and felt she had no time to knit. She received a Stitches brochure for the event happening at that time (1990-something) in Cherry Hill and thought this sounded like her people. Several books later, she is the teacher-designer-author we've come to know.